Oh what a load of... I'm in a bit of a bad mood because of the news here, but really, where's the secret? That Finland and Germany were allies is no secret, it's documented history. When you go to war, you pick any allies you can get. That goes for any country, any time. Other Europians don't know about Finland fighting alongside the Axis powers? Really? Since when was that? I never knew any Europians who didn't know this and I've known plenty. More importantly, what has it got to do with the news discussed here?
That's why I'm not completely surprised to read about Auvinen's Nazi obsession.. it's a disturbing secret of Finnish history.
Even Israel has neonazis these days (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6985808.stm) which sounds about as stupid as anything to me. It just goes to show that some people are always attracted to stupid, evil ideas and it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with history. Explaining a tradegy like this (a young kid going ballistic, ending and/or destroying countless lives including his own) with stuff that happened 60+ years ago is just about as smart as explaining it all with computer games.
Yes. The student is to blame for attacking the hospital network. In completely unrelated case, the hospital or whoever it is that's responsible for taking care of the network may be guilty of criminal negligence. Finally, if (as) it's a well known fact that the adware companies pay commissions based on unauthorized installations of their software, the adware companies themselves may very well be guilty of inciting these actions. I believe they should be. All these cases are unrelated however and in this particular case, shouldn't lessen the blame of other parties.
[BLOCKQUOTE]Anybody caught doing something stupid when a VIP is in the room deserves what they get.[/BLOCKQUOTE]
I beg to differ... no one deserves to get fired just because having a solitaire open while someone walks into the room, not unless your job involves being alert for invading Martians (sneaky ones, those) or such. Some bad looks, yes, maybe some yelling, but not getting fired. Some sense of proportion would be nice.
No, it would be a nice way to get the shareholders sue the board for criminal negligence, or some such thing. Seriously, the only problem here is that MS doesn't want to play nice, and it getting it's face slapped for it. This has been discussed and argued so many times here it's getting a bit tiresome, but here goes one more time. MS is a defacto monopoly in many fields and thus it is target to some special rules that try to prohibit it from leveraging it's market dominance in an unfair way. This is supposed to protect the customers and personally, I believe it does. Merry christmas.
Sounds like someone tried and failed. Now please wait until the black helos arrive to fetch you into reorientation camps. Thank you for your cooperation.
How long have you lived in Asia? I guess after a while, you should be able to see the differences. For example, after 10 years in the US, I won't confused New York and California as a single country:).
It didn't take 10 years for me. After spending a couple of months in San Francisco area and then visiting a friend in New York, I was shocked to see how different the culture was. Well, not as much shocked as surprised, although I must say that crossing the street in NY almost got me killed the first couple of times. In SF drivers tend to yield to pedestrians, not so in NY. Also what they say about New Yorkers being always in such a hurry, it seemed true. Strange. It felt like a different country after San Francisco.
It goes both ways. If the rest of the world was to disconnect (like it's going to happen), it would hurt *everyone*, including the US. It's not like the world is selling to US, the US is also selling to the world.
You see, the world with only America is also just a pipe dream.
So... on exactly how many hardware platforms have you tested your code on? Are you quite sure that the software you test your own code with is completely bug-free? What kind of certificate of quality did you receive with your development tools?
Yes, I am nit-picking here. The point is, if the end product has to be *truly* flawless, there's no easy, fast and cheap way to produce the code. It's going to be difficult, slow and expensive, and you have to target a very specific platform for your software product.
Unfortunately, the western powers and USA in particular have a lot to do with those radicalized people lacking food, safety and means to take care of their families. There's a good reason why it's the US flag Palestinians are burning instead of, say, the Swedish flag. The question of Palestine seems to be a genuine insult to many a muslim, and USA is very closely and visibly linked to it by always supporting the actions of Israel, no matter what. Also it's about the presence of foreign (US) troops on the holy land. As you can see, there's many reasons to choose from, and not all of them are just envy.
Actually, I think he mostly speaks in Swedish, since he's from Sweden. That's a large Country in the north of Europe (an area called Scandinavia), boasting one of the world's best education systems, an extremely well developed technological infrastructure (far better than the US, for example) and very strict ecological standards. The people there have got a language that is different from English (although remotely connected, both being germanic languages).
Yes, all very true. Actually, why not try a holiday in Sweden? See the lovely lakes. The wonderful telephone system. And many interesting furry animals, including the majestic moose. Now how about it, huh?
Because books look cool and you can really impress people with a decent bookshelf. Usually the two most interesting dead things for me in anyone's apartment are their books and cd's. Oh yea, someone could object that I could also impress people with a great personality but they don't sell those in stores. Books I can buy though.
Well I would think that natural selection will weed out this particular trait pretty quickly from human race. In the good ole days this same guy might have had offspring all around the world, now all he has is probably a really disgustingly messy keyboard =) times they are a-changing indeed.
You read in a public bulletin board detailed instructions for robbing a bank by typing in an unpublished keycode into an ATM machine and you get arrested??? No F'n WAY!!!!
Why do you people always come up with these pointless analogies? Excuse me my stupidity, but I cannot see what stealing money from a bank has to do with this. The two acts are of completely different magnitude. Yes, it was wrong. Yes, it was stupid. No, they didn't kill anyone, and as fas as I can understand they didn't even cause anyone too much inconvenience. Blacklisting people from an academic career because of this incident would be a bit harsh, now wouldn't it? I believe young people have been forgiven worse things than this.
Yes, I still remember the day I was trying to reach a good friend of mine so we could meet and have fun. No, not that kind of fun, you perverts. We both kept calling back and forth, back and forth, and always the other person was out of house when the other person was calling him. That's one fine summerday to remember.
Whereas now, if I want to talk to someone, I just call him or her and magically (s)he answers the phone if possible, if not I can send him/her a text message stating my intentions. Then we actually get to meet in person, because no time is lost in setting up the meeting. Neat.
It would be progress if the reliability of phones didn't go down the toilet when all the new features were added into phones. I'im afraid that the mobile phone manufacturers are in the middle of the process of learning how to make all the gizmos realiable when facing an hostile environment (viruses et al.).
Then again at least Nokia (possibly other manufacturers also, I wouldn't know) is still marketing a very matter of fact, voice communications and text messages only phone model. In Europe the model goes by the number 1100. It's ugly as hell, but if you don't need any extra features, there you have it.
Well, IMO if this was true, you should at least warn any person using that computer that anything they do on that computer may be monitored. Of course telling your husband that "you may be monitored" is not the best way to continue your marriage =)
No, it's not extortion either, it's called lobbying. Pass the law X and we will invest money to create Y jobs in your electoral district, otherwise we'll have to take our business elsewhere. Happens all the time.
Well, here's two reasons why I prefer a cell phone.
1. With my usage profile a cell phone is actually cheaper than a land line (this in Finland).
2. Cell phone is a lot more convenient than a land line. It's a lot easier to reach people these days than before cell phones. If I don't want to be available, I will switch my cell to silent mode. Owning a cell doesn't force me to be available 24 hours a day.
Well that's it, a better product for less the price. What more could I possibly want? Really, cell phones are changing the way people interact these days. They have already had a huge impact on the society.
4. Just to piss people off, I'll remind everyone that an iPod is not a particularly good decoder. Of course, the amount of money needed to get a good (I can tell there's a difference with my eyes closed) DAC is $3k, but I doubt many people really care and even I can't afford one. The point being don't spend forever telling me how much you love your music if you're listening to it on crappy mp3s, ripped god knows how, at 192, on ear phones that use cone drivers.
Well I'm just listening to some music encoded at 128 kbps with my $150 headphones, and honestly, I probably couldn't tell the difference if I was listening to the original CD. I believe that's the case with most people. Lucky me, otherwise I'd be spending all my money on hi-fi equipment.
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I really liked it a lot more when Finland made the news because of Linus. ****!
Yes. The student is to blame for attacking the hospital network. In completely unrelated case, the hospital or whoever it is that's responsible for taking care of the network may be guilty of criminal negligence. Finally, if (as) it's a well known fact that the adware companies pay commissions based on unauthorized installations of their software, the adware companies themselves may very well be guilty of inciting these actions. I believe they should be. All these cases are unrelated however and in this particular case, shouldn't lessen the blame of other parties.
[BLOCKQUOTE]Anybody caught doing something stupid when a VIP is in the room deserves what they get.[/BLOCKQUOTE] I beg to differ... no one deserves to get fired just because having a solitaire open while someone walks into the room, not unless your job involves being alert for invading Martians (sneaky ones, those) or such. Some bad looks, yes, maybe some yelling, but not getting fired. Some sense of proportion would be nice.
No life... lucky us. Otherwise we'd need to build up an expedition to go and nuke 'em till they glow. And boy would that be expensive!
No, it would be a nice way to get the shareholders sue the board for criminal negligence, or some such thing. Seriously, the only problem here is that MS doesn't want to play nice, and it getting it's face slapped for it. This has been discussed and argued so many times here it's getting a bit tiresome, but here goes one more time. MS is a defacto monopoly in many fields and thus it is target to some special rules that try to prohibit it from leveraging it's market dominance in an unfair way. This is supposed to protect the customers and personally, I believe it does. Merry christmas.
So, MS would rather withdraw from a very large market than try to play by the rules? Sure they would. And christmas comes twice a year.
Sounds like someone tried and failed. Now please wait until the black helos arrive to fetch you into reorientation camps. Thank you for your cooperation.
It goes both ways. If the rest of the world was to disconnect (like it's going to happen), it would hurt *everyone*, including the US. It's not like the world is selling to US, the US is also selling to the world.
You see, the world with only America is also just a pipe dream.
So... on exactly how many hardware platforms have you tested your code on? Are you quite sure that the software you test your own code with is completely bug-free? What kind of certificate of quality did you receive with your development tools?
Yes, I am nit-picking here. The point is, if the end product has to be *truly* flawless, there's no easy, fast and cheap way to produce the code. It's going to be difficult, slow and expensive, and you have to target a very specific platform for your software product.
Unfortunately, the western powers and USA in particular have a lot to do with those radicalized people lacking food, safety and means to take care of their families. There's a good reason why it's the US flag Palestinians are burning instead of, say, the Swedish flag. The question of Palestine seems to be a genuine insult to many a muslim, and USA is very closely and visibly linked to it by always supporting the actions of Israel, no matter what. Also it's about the presence of foreign (US) troops on the holy land. As you can see, there's many reasons to choose from, and not all of them are just envy.
Yes, all very true. Actually, why not try a holiday in Sweden? See the lovely lakes. The wonderful telephone system. And many interesting furry animals, including the majestic moose. Now how about it, huh?
This is why I try hard not to waste my life on bad movies.
Because books look cool and you can really impress people with a decent bookshelf. Usually the two most interesting dead things for me in anyone's apartment are their books and cd's. Oh yea, someone could object that I could also impress people with a great personality but they don't sell those in stores. Books I can buy though.
Well I would think that natural selection will weed out this particular trait pretty quickly from human race. In the good ole days this same guy might have had offspring all around the world, now all he has is probably a really disgustingly messy keyboard =) times they are a-changing indeed.
Why do you people always come up with these pointless analogies? Excuse me my stupidity, but I cannot see what stealing money from a bank has to do with this. The two acts are of completely different magnitude. Yes, it was wrong. Yes, it was stupid. No, they didn't kill anyone, and as fas as I can understand they didn't even cause anyone too much inconvenience. Blacklisting people from an academic career because of this incident would be a bit harsh, now wouldn't it? I believe young people have been forgiven worse things than this.
Yes, I still remember the day I was trying to reach a good friend of mine so we could meet and have fun. No, not that kind of fun, you perverts. We both kept calling back and forth, back and forth, and always the other person was out of house when the other person was calling him. That's one fine summerday to remember.
Whereas now, if I want to talk to someone, I just call him or her and magically (s)he answers the phone if possible, if not I can send him/her a text message stating my intentions. Then we actually get to meet in person, because no time is lost in setting up the meeting. Neat.
It would be progress if the reliability of phones didn't go down the toilet when all the new features were added into phones. I'im afraid that the mobile phone manufacturers are in the middle of the process of learning how to make all the gizmos realiable when facing an hostile environment (viruses et al.).
Then again at least Nokia (possibly other manufacturers also, I wouldn't know) is still marketing a very matter of fact, voice communications and text messages only phone model. In Europe the model goes by the number 1100. It's ugly as hell, but if you don't need any extra features, there you have it.
Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, if I'm not completely mistaken. If you like Discworld books, you're bound to like this one, too.
None of this will be of any importance once the Americans bomb your country back to stone age like you deserve, you fourth axis of evil, you!
Well, IMO if this was true, you should at least warn any person using that computer that anything they do on that computer may be monitored. Of course telling your husband that "you may be monitored" is not the best way to continue your marriage =)
No, it's not extortion either, it's called lobbying. Pass the law X and we will invest money to create Y jobs in your electoral district, otherwise we'll have to take our business elsewhere. Happens all the time.
Well, here's two reasons why I prefer a cell phone.
1. With my usage profile a cell phone is actually cheaper than a land line (this in Finland).
2. Cell phone is a lot more convenient than a land line. It's a lot easier to reach people these days than before cell phones. If I don't want to be available, I will switch my cell to silent mode. Owning a cell doesn't force me to be available 24 hours a day.
Well that's it, a better product for less the price. What more could I possibly want? Really, cell phones are changing the way people interact these days. They have already had a huge impact on the society.